Elizabeth Montgomery

Elizabeth Montgomery was born on Apr 15, 1933 in USA. Elizabeth Montgomery's big-screen debut came with The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell directed by Otto Preminger in 1955. Elizabeth Montgomery is known for Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan directed by Joyce Chopra, Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Edna Buchanan and Yaphet Kotto as Marty Talbot. Elizabeth Montgomery has got 5 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award Elizabeth Montgomery achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Elizabeth Montgomery plays is Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan which will be released on May 09, 1995.

Elizabeth Montgomery was born into show business. Her parents were screen actor Robert Montgomery and Broadway actress Elizabeth Allen. Elizabeth graduated from the Spence School in New York City and attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After three years' intensive training, she made her TV debut in her father's 1950s playhouse series Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) and appeared in more than 200 live programs over the next decade. She once remarked, "I guess you could say I'm a TV baby." Notable early film roles included Condamné au silence (1955) and La revanche du Sicilien (1963). However, she is best remembered for her leading role as the witch Samantha in the top-rated ABC sitcom Ma sorcière bien aimée (1964). Her family - mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead), look-alike cousin Serena (Montgomery, wearing a dark wig) and advertising executive husband Darrin (first Dick York then Dick Sargent) - tried to suppress her supernatural skills but often turned to her tricks to solve problems. The signal of impending witchcraft was a twitch of Samantha's nose. After her first and only TV series ended she turned to made-for-TV movies, many of which won critical praise: A Case of Rape (1974), La légende de Lizzie Borden (1975), Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993). She narrated the movie The Panama Deception (1992) which won an Academy Award in 1993. Reference works showed her as 62 when she died though the family said she was 57. The family did not disclose the type of cancer which caused her death.